The UK tech sector is cutting graduate jobs dramatically – down 46 percent in the past year, with another 53 percent drop projected, according to figures from the Institute of Student Employers (ISE).
The culprit? AI is already doing the entry-level work graduates used to perform like routine coding, data analysis, and basic digital tasks. Companies still need tech talent, but they're hiring experienced workers instead of training newcomers.
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MattBlackAlien@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 323d
So what happens when the experienced devs quit or retire... ?
6nk06@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 323d
That's the question that no AI-bro has answered so far. When I retire, I'll spend my time writing simple open-source stuff for me and for those who still want to create stuff and solve problems.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 323d
surely the plagiarism machine will have evolved itself into a superintelligent thinking machine by then.
right?
MattBlackAlien@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 323d
By regurgitating its own slop !
By Jove, you've cracked it.
jacksilver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 323d
Honestly I think AI is a scape goat here. Tech has been doing layoffs and reducing staff since covid ended and I think they're just rolling with the AI excuse to both make AI sound more competent and to take some heat off of them.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 323d
Who cares? Line go up good.
Right?
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 323d
On a realistic scale in 20 years AI doesn't just pop it crashes every CEOs company that bet on it because AI is just a pattern recognition algorithm and its all just attempts at following the pattern it recognizes.
SupraMario@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 323d
Same shit when we shipped the jobs in 2013 to code farms that had no fucking clue how to actually do dev work. It'll come back in a few years. Give it no more than another 5 years of this shit and code will be so fucked production will grind to a halt requiring these idiots to rehire competent devs again, then the jr positions will follow.
MattBlackAlien@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 323d
This still assumes that there will still be competent devs who want to come back to work.
What have they been doing for the last five years ? Presumably finding something else to pay the rent and/or provide fulfillment.
dg2445@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 323d
Fulfillment?
MattBlackAlien@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 323d
Retired.
SupraMario@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 323d
Not saying some will jump to other fields, but the nearly 5 years of code farming bullshit happened and we recovered.
net00@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 323d